Call for Submissions on Theme of "Secrets and Mysteries": Superpresent

Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. Superpresent is available free online and a limited run of print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art, and sound art.

We accept submissions from anywhere in the world.

No fees for submission.

The theme for the Winter 2025 issue is Secrets and Mysteries

We are are seeking poetry, short stories, essays, experimental art, video, sound art, all forms of visual art as well as asemic writing and textual arts of all kinds.

Submissions Due December 1st

Visual Art Guidelines: 

• We will accept art in JPEG format.

• Artwork must be 300 dpi or higher.

• All artwork must be at least 8.5’’ x 11’’ to fit in the magazine.

• Up to three images may be submitted

• Please include titles for images

Written Guidelines :

• We accept submissions in DOC, DOCX, and RTF formats.

• For poetry, up to three poems, one per page

• Essays and short stories should be 500-2000 words.

Video and Sound Guidelines:

• Send a link to the video or sound file posting (Youtube, etc)

• Provide a short description of the piece (up to 100 words)

• For videos provide up to three still images

Include a 50-100 word bio written in the third person with your submission.

Please send your submissions to:

editor@superpresent.org 

Copyright and publication specifications: First Serial Rights

Call for Submissions: Just Keep Up Magazine

Just Keep Up Magazine

Submissions should be sent to:

JustKeepUpMagazine@gmail.com

Submissions will be responded to within two to three months, if not sooner.

There are no reading fees.

Accepted pieces will be compensated as follows:

$10 a story

$10 a poem

Payment will be made upon publication and processed through PayPal, CashApp, or Venmo, whichever is preferred. Please include which method of payment you prefer in your submission. If you live in a country that does not accept these as forms of payment, we will attempt to mail you cash or a check.

Submissions are open to humans and other life forms of any nationality or planet of residence.

Stories should be science fiction and/or horror (preferably both) and 100-10,000 words long. Please send one story at a time. Please include the genre of your story in your submission.

Poems can be any length but the pieces you submit have to incorporate some element of science fiction and/or horror. Interpret this as you will. Send up to ten poems at a time.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged. Poetry and fiction can be submitted simultaneously.

Please attach your writing to your email as a docx or PDF file. If this is not possible for you, include the text in the body of your email.

If you used AI in any way for your submission, please let us know in your submission.

We are possibly open to non-fiction pieces such as reviews of science fiction/horror pieces of art (movies, books, et cetera). Please query us before submitting anything non-fiction.

Call for Poetry Submissions on Themes of Art, Collecting, or Antiques: The Magazine Antiques

THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES, America’s premier publication on antiques and visual arts, is accepting poetry submissions for a creative new feature which pairs a poem with a crossword puzzle on the same theme. The poem must consider antiques, art, or collecting and, ideally, reflect subject knowledge.

No submission fee.

$50 paid for accepted poems. Send 1-3 unpublished poems, 30-50 lines each. It may take six months to hear back. Notify us if a submission is accepted elsewhere.

Send submissions in a single document with your name as the title to:

evegrubinantiques@gmail.com 

with a brief cover letter. Use this address for questions.

Call for Submissions: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is looking for, as you might guess, "compressed creative arts." We accept fiction and creative nonfiction, as long if they are compressed in some way. Work is published weekly, without labels, and the labels here only exist to help us determine its best readers.

Our response time is generally 1-5 days. Also, our acceptance rate is currently about 2% of submissions. We pay writers $50 per accepted piece and signed contract.

The reading period is March 15 to June 15 & September 15 to December 15. If you've been previously published by the press, please wait a year until submitting again. Thanks.

The reader for your submission is, during this round of submissions, the managing editor.

Please be sure to submit in the correct category; we've been receiving several fiction submissions in the creative nonfiction category.

We do not publish poetry that has line breaks, but we are thrilled to consider prose poetry without line breaks.

For all submitters, we aren't as concerned with labels—hint fiction, prose poetry, micro fiction, flash fiction, and so on—as we are with what compression means to you. In other words, what form "compression" takes in each artist's work will be up to each individual. However, we don't publish erotica or work with strong, graphic sexual content.

In short, we want to fall in love with your work. That might happen in the way we've fallen in love with work we've previously published, or it might happen in a way we have yet to experience. Maybe reading that other work will help in knowing whether you should send your work to us, but in truth, such a thing might not be discoverable.

Here are things that matter:

• Please do not include a cover letter as part of the manuscript document.

• Please include, as part of your cover letter on Submittable, a brief bio. Also, in the cover letter, let us know why you feel this piece works for a journal obsessed with "compression."

• Please no more than one submission of a single piece in each genre at a time. Please feel free to submit again after receiving a response, but please no more than 3 submissions per genre per reading period.

• Please do not submit work that has been previously published anywhere: blogs, personal websites, print and online journals, and so on. Simultaneous submissions are fine with us, but please let us know if the submission has been accepted elsewhere. Failure to do will result in some facsimile of your face being put on the Matter dart board. And no one wants that.

• Please format prose to be singled-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, in a Microsoft Word document, with an extra space between each paragraph. We do not consider poetry with line breaks.

• If you've been previously published by The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, please wait a year before submitting again.

• Word count: Maximum 600 words 

Submit your work here.

Call for Nonfiction Submissions: Cutleaf Journal

Cutleaf welcomes writers at all levels of experience to submit original literary nonfiction in English for consideration.

Whatever the topic, we are looking for well-written, imaginative work that invites a reader to join the writer in thinking through what it means to be alive in the modern world.

Cutleaf is a journal run by writers. We try to treat writers as we want to be treated: We charge no fee to submit.

We pay from $100 to $300 per published nonfiction piece.

We reply to submissions in a timely manner, usually not later than three months and generally much sooner.

For the 2025 journal year, we will be open for nonfiction submissions for three months (Sept 1 to Nov 30, 2024.)

• We get many hundreds of submissions in nonfiction each year. So we ask those who submit to adhere to our guidelines. Those who do not follow the guidelines may be moved to the end of the reading queue. Only one nonfiction submission per writer per calendar year.

• Name and email on the first page of the submission. Text double-spaced, with page numbers, and in a standard 12 point font with a 1 inch margin. A brief bio written in the third person included with submission.

• We take a narrative, literary, and imaginative approach to nonfiction. We welcome traditional essay formats but we also welcome variations such as speculative essays, essays in verse, "hermit crab" essays, or essays that explore the use of language in imaginative ways.

• We are open to any topic that moves a writer, but particularly invite work that addresses the ethics and practice of distinctive occupations. The nonfiction editor, a physician, takes special interest in reading work from physicians, dentists, nurses, social workers, scientists, technicians, and other clinicians and caregivers involved in health care and public health.

• We do not limit our point of view to the simply factual, but we expect nonfiction writers to hew closely to the truth. We do not fact-check the pieces published in the journal, but we do engage in a back-and-forth editing process for many of the pieces we accept for publication. Authors are responsible for securing permissions for quotes of copyrighted material, if needed.

• We are not interested in and will not publish fantasy, erotica, romance (paranormal or otherwise), polemics, position statements, editorials, purely academic papers, or screeds. We are not interested in pitches for work yet to be completed. We do not publish previously published work.

• We consider simultaneous submissions with the understanding that you will quickly inform us if a piece is accepted by another publication.

Submit your work here.

Nonfiction Fellowship: The Ann Friedman Weekly Fellowship

The Ann Friedman Weekly Fellowship is an annual program for nonfiction writers who are not yet established in their careers. It includes mentorship and editing; a $5,000 stipend; regular check-ins to provide structure and accountability; and space in my newsletter where fellows can publish and promote their work. This program is funded by paying members of the Ann Friedman Weekly.

For the 2025 fellowship, I will provide support and accountability to two writers, who will each write and publish a newsletter of their own. Each fellow will come up with an editorial focus (or hone an existing one), create a workflow, and integrate feedback as they build a body of self-published work. I will, of course, welcome conversation about other writing projects and offer broader advice throughout the year. But the newsletter will be their main fellowship focus.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Who I’m looking for: Nonfiction writers who don’t have (m)any published clips, who aren’t well-connected to editors, who don’t have a substantial social media following. I’m looking for people who are already writing and developing their skills. I invite people from populations that are underrepresented in media to apply. (I know most job listings have a line like this, but I really and truly mean it. Please apply!) For reasons related to scheduling calls and time zones, I am limiting this to writers who live in the United States.

Compensation: A stipend of $5,000. This fellowship is not a full-time job and will not provide any health insurance benefits. Think of it more like a year-long, highly personalized workshop with steady mentorship. 

Commitment: We’ll do a monthly Zoom check-in, and you will have space in my newsletter at least once a month, too. Your time commitment will be variable, but I think it’s safe to say a few hours per week. I expect you to engage with your fellow fellow (lol) and with me, and to meet the deadlines we set together.

Why I’m doing this: I’m eager to share what I know about the craft and profession of writing, and I love having colleagues. For more context, read this. 

How to apply: Write me a letter, no longer than one page. In it,

Tell me a little bit about who you are and the writing you’re currently doing.

Then tell me about the newsletter you’d like to publish in 2025. It could be a limited series, or an ongoing project you hope to keep up after the fellowship ends. It could be just the germ of an idea, or something you’ve been working on for awhile that needs a refresh. Be as specific as you can.

Tell me about the nonfiction writing skills you’re most eager to develop in the coming year. (Examples: Conducting great interviews, writing compelling titles/headlines, making the personal resonate more universally.) Put another way: How do you hope to improve over the course of the fellowship year?

If you have a little space left, briefly tell me about the last thing you read and loved. What was so good about it?

Title the document “[Your Name] AF WKLY 2025”

Fill out this form and upload the letter. I will only consider applications submitted through the form.

Timeline: Applications are due by 11:59pm PST on January 3, 2025. This deadline is strict. I will be in touch with all applicants by February 15. Fellowships begin March 3, 2025 and run through the end of the calendar year.

Writing Competition: The Gregory Djanikian and Veasna So Scholarships

The Gregory Djanikian & Anthony Veasna So Scholarships

Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry

Gregory Djanikian was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and came to the United States when he was eight years old. He has published seven poetry collections, the latest of which is Sojourners of the In-Between (CMU Press). His work appears in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Boulevard, Poetry, Southern Review, and TriQuarterly, among others. Until retiring, he was the longstanding Director of Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where he greatly enriched both the Adroit Journal as well as its staff of emerging writers.

We recognize and encourage the gift of such support by offering it ourselves; in honor of Greg’s contribution to emerging student and non-student writers at Penn and around the world, we recognize six emerging poets as Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry each year.

All emerging writers who have not published full-length collections are eligible (regardless of age, geographic location, or educational status), and are encouraged to submit. Writers with forthcoming debut full-length collections are eligible so long as collections won’t appear earlier than April 2024.

Gregory Djanikian Scholars receive $200 and publication of their portfolios of poems in a future issue of the Adroit Journal. Finalists will be awarded copies of Greg’s latest collection, Sojourners of the In-Between, and a list of semifinalists determined by the editors will be released with results.

Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction

Anthony Veasna So (1992-2020) was an American writer of short stories that often drew from his upbringing as a child of Cambodian immigrants and were described by the New York Times as “crackling, kinetic and darkly comedic.” His debut short story collection, Afterparties, was published posthumously by HarperCollins in 2021 and was named a New York Times Bestseller and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book.

Anthony was not just one of the most talented new writers to grace this decade—he was also a member of the Adroit family, having served as a prose editor for four years. Anthony was as an inspiration to all of us, and to so many writers around the world. In honor of Anthony’s contribution to both the Adroit Journal‘s staff community and the world’s fiction readers, we will recognize six emerging fiction writers each year as Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction.

All emerging writers who have not published full-length collections or novels are eligible (regardless of age, geographic location, or educational status), and are encouraged to submit. Writers with forthcoming debut full-length collections are eligible so long as collections won’t appear earlier than April 2024.

Anthony Veasna So Scholars receive $200 and publication of one piece from their portfolio in a future issue of the Adroit Journal. Finalists will be awarded copies of Anthony’s collection, Afterparties, and a list of semifinalists determined by the editors will be released with results. 

Djankian Scholars:
Submissions may include up to six poems (max of ten single-spaced pages). Simultaneous submissions, previously published submissions, and submissions recognized by outside organizations are accepted, provided that a) a full catalogue of publication history for enclosed poems is included in the submission and b) at least one poem in the submission remains unpublished.

Submitters should reach out promptly via email (editors@theadroitjournal.org) if work disclosed as unpublished is accepted elsewhere.

Veasna So Scholars:
Submissions may include up to three stories (max of 9,000 words total). Simultaneous submissions, previously published submissions, and submissions recognized by outside organizations are accepted, provided that a) a full catalogue of publication history for enclosed work is included in the submission and b) at least one piece in the submission remains unpublished.

Submitters should promptly add a note to their entry on Submittable if work disclosed as unpublished is accepted elsewhere.

A note on fees:
To accommodate this while offering free online issues, we have set a non-refundable submission fee of $15. If you require financial assistance, you may submit a fee waiver with this form (Djanikian) and this form (Veasna So). Due to fee waivers' processing time, fee waivers will only be accepted until December 10th, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST.

Deadline for both applications is Dec. 31, 2024.

Submit here.

Writing Competition: Best Microfiction 2024

We are pleased to say that Best Microfiction 2025 will be published by Pelekinesis in the summer of 2025. The Best Microfiction anthology series considers stories of only 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O’Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology will have Dawn Raffel serve as final judge.

We are accepting submissions from lit mag editors on a rolling basis from November 2nd, 2024 and continuing through to a deadline of December 15th, 2024. Please feel free to nominate stories that have yet to be published in December, as they are stories published in 2024.

Each nomination should be a separate submission. At the top of each submission, please write your own name, the name of your magazine, and the author’s name and e-mail address.

Instructions for Literary Magazine editors:

You are welcome to nominate up to five microfiction stories that were published by your publication in 2024. Please do not include work that has already appeared in an anthology or 'best-of' list, or that has won a prize from another competition. If your nomination wins an award after our selections have been made, that’s fine. But if the work has already won an award, please do not submit it here.

So, to summarize...
Requirements:

• 400 words or less

• Limit of five nominations published in 2024

• Deadline December 15th, 2024 At the top of each submission, write:

your name
the name of your magazine
author’s name and e-mail address 

Not accepted:

• work previously published in anthologies

• work published in ’best of’ lists

• prize-winning stories from other competitions

Submit here.

Call for Submissions to Anthology onTheme of Rebirth, Renewal, and Reemergence: Breaking Through the Penumbra (Cicada Song Press)

Cicada Song Press is now open for submissions for our Spring 2025 Anthology: Breaking Through the Penumbra. Submissions are open September 1, 2024 – November 30, 2024.

We are soliciting flash fiction and short stories from 100 – 5,000 words, based on the theme: Rebirth, Renewal and Reemergence. We encourage stories from all fiction genres and creative non-fiction.

Keeping with our mission statement, we encourage both unpublished and published writers from diverse backgrounds.

There is no entry fee for submissions, and we do accept multiple submissions, up to 3 per author. Your story may not have been previously curated in a magazine, journal, anthology, etc. (but if you published it yourself on a webpage that is ok), and we do not accept AI generated stories. All story decisions will be made by the end of December, 2024.

Selected stories will be printed in our Breaking Through the Penumbra anthology, expected in Spring 2025. Authors of selected stories will receive a free e-copy of the book, along with the opportunity to purchase print copies at the publisher’s cost. We will also include one social media/website link printed alongside your story so your fans can find you. Story rights revert to the author immediately following publication.

Be especially careful to include an accurate email address, as this will be our sole means of contacting you.

We are not particularly choosy about manuscript format, but a double spaced, 12-point, legible font is nice. If you’d like more guidance, we suggest William Shunn’s guide to Proper Manuscript Format. We request .doc, docx, or .rtf format. If you have more questions, please contact us at:

submissions@cicadasongpress.com

Do NOT use this email for your submission, only for questions.

Submission form here.

Writing Competition: T Paulo Urcanse Prize for Literary Excellence

T Paulo Urcanse was a Portuguese writer and activist, most famous for his short novel The Pucker Fish, which won him the acclaim of egghead academic types and ruff and tumble dropout members of the urban intelligentsia secretly living off the generational wealth of their parents but dressed in the uniform of a late 19th Century cobbler and/or coal miner.

In a 1997 interview with the popular American television host, Montel Williams, T Paulo Urcanse said (via translator), “The point of writing is not free expression, or thought analysis through careful cataloging of tangential subject matter, but rather that one day, and God may it be soon, you write a bestseller and make lots and lots of money.”

Over the course of his lifetime, T Paulo submitted his short fiction and poems to over 187 contests, with submission fees totaling in the quadruple digits, US$. Unfortunately, he never won. Not once.

Last year, The Editors of High Horse began the process of rectifying the great financial injustices rendered upon T Paulo by global markets and sports fans and viewers of The Bachelorette everywhere, by announcing the First Annual T Paulo Urcanse Prize For Literary Excellence, giving away $500 in prize money to five very talented writers. In the process, we were fortunate enough to read through over 300 submissions from people no doubt as incredulous as we are about the lack of public acknowledgement by the academy for the utter genius that was T Paulo Urcanse’s writing.

In the spirit of continuity and finishing what you started, by Jove, it is with great ceremony and pleasure that we formally announce the Second Annual T Paulo Urcanse Prize For Literary Excellence.

The Second Annual T Paulo Urcanse Prize for Literary Excellence is open to poets, writers, and essayists of all colors and stripes. Whether you be a lonely writer looking for community and wanting to make your literary debut, or a similarly eggheaded and celebrated writer in the vein of the namesake of this prize, we welcome your submissions with open arms, without fees or prerequisites, without ever having known you or met you at a cocktail party where we discussed the terror of contemporary history and post-structuralist theory or the pitfalls of the first person perspective in a short story or weird childhood stories that involve stray cats and the throwing of tennis balls at moving vehicles from behind bushes at night in the summer on the Main Street of the provincial town where we were raised.

AND NOW FOR AN ELUCIDATION OF THE MONETARY PRIZES

1st Place: $250, publication on the website, and an optional interview with the Editors.

2nd Place: $100, publication on the website.

3rd-5th Place: $50, publication on the website.

Submissions are open from now (October 31st, 2024 AD) until November 30th, 2024 AD.

You may email your contest submission as a PDF, Word Doc, or Google Doc to:

therealhighhorse@gmail.com,

again, without a fee. Please put (Contest Submission) in the subject line of your message.

Winners will be announced two weeks after the submission deadline on this very website, and our corresponding Twitter (sorry, X), and Instagram pages.

All blessings,

The Editors

Call for Submissions: Split Lip Magazine

 

 

You know the drill. Read our issues to see if we’re a good home for your work. Get the full scoop before you submit! Then hit up our Submittable. All submissions are currently being considered for our monthly online issues. In an effort to promote Black voices, Split Lip Magazine is opening free submissions for Black writers in all genres.

 

Payment

We pay (via PayPal) $75 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art, $50 for interviews/reviews, and $25 for mini-reviews for our web issues. 

As long as we’ve got money, we’re committed to paying people for their work.

Free Submissions

January, March, May, August, September, November

We recommend submitting early in free subs months! Sometimes we have to shut free subs early due to a rad but also overwhelming response. (A peek behind the curtain: our free sub cap with Submittable maxes out.)

Tip Jar Submissions

February, April, June, October, and the first half of December

We don’t accept submissions in July or from December 15–31.

If the fees are a burden, please reach out to us! We can’t always help out, but we like to try when we can.

Ground Rules

What’s a magazine without exclusive content? We want to see fresh work that hasn’t been published anywhere before (including your personal blog or website). First-time electronic publication rights are really all we ask for.

 

One submission per writer at a time, please. That means if you submit a poem, you can’t also submit flash, etc. You get the picture.

 

We accept simultaneous submissions. Yay! But please withdraw your piece immediately if it’s accepted elsewhere.

 

Content warnings: If your work deals with sensitive or triggering topics, please identify/note them in your cover letter.

 

If you used AI to write/create your piece, you must disclose this fact in your cover letter.

 

We don’t accept emailed submissions. You gotta use our Submittable. The exception to the rule is Interviews/Reviews—scroll down for more info.

 

If you have some edits to make after you’ve submitted: withdraw your submission, update it, and re-submit! We know it’s a headache, but we’re a small, all-volunteer team. We only have so many heads to hold everyone else’s aches. So be a pal and do a little of the legwork for us! Any emails asking us to correct something in a submission will, as much as it pains us to say it, be ignored!

 

It’ll take us up to 20 weeks to let you know if you’re in or not—we’re a small, all-volunteer staff.

 

If you receive a rejection, please wait at least a month before submitting again: we love you, but a mag’s gotta breathe, you know?

 

Hot Tips

Double space your work. Some of our staff needs it for readability! Single-spaced poetry is okay, though.

 

We vastly prefer .doc and .docx files, although a PDF is okay in a pinch.

 

Don’t send us stuff that promotes bigotry and violence.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Nimrod International Journal

Nimrod International Journal welcomes submissions of poetry and short fiction. We publish two issues annually, and both issues contain work accepted as general submissions throughout the year. Our winter issue also features the winners and finalists of our annual Literary Awards.

Format

Each issue is approximately 130 pages, perfect bound with a four-color cover.

General Submissions

Accepted April 1-30 and November 1-30 each year. Turn-around time for general submissions is one to five months.

Prose: Work must be previously unpublished. 5,000 words maximum. Double-spaced.

Poetry: Work must be previously unpublished. 3-7 pages. One poem per page.

Payment

We pay $20 per poem/page of prose, with a maximum payment of $300. All contributors will also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears. 

 

Submission Fee: $3.00

 

For more information, visit our website or join us on Facebook or Twitter.

 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Meetinghouse Magazine

the basics:

• We accept up to two pieces of prose, five poems, and five 2D artworks per submission

• Please submit prose pieces as separate documents, poems in a single document, and visual pieces, including a list of works, in one document if possible.

• Please keep each submission under 7,500 words.

• Include a brief bio with your work.

• Please attach your submissions as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Artwork will also be accepted as .png and .jpg.

• On very rare occasions do we accept previously published work. Please let us know if that is the case with your piece.
  

• We accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• We publish work in translation. Translators are responsible for acquiring author and publisher permissions.

• Authors retain the copyright to their work.

• We accept work by both published and previously unpublished authors.

• We can offer you some money: $40 for content published digitally, $100 for prose published in print, $50 for each poem published in print, and $100 per artwork published in print.

likes:

• We appreciate genre-bending & genre-blending.

• We believe trying and failing to work through difficult ideas and feelings is more worthwhile than staying comfortable in what you know. Asking questions is better than answering them.

• We very badly want to be kind.

dislikes:

• We’re put off by snark or fashion in lieu of rigorous thinking.

• We will not consider discriminatorily offensive or hateful content for publication.

• Please do not use Courier.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: The Disappointed Housewife

The Disappointed Housewife seeks fiction, essays, and poetry – along with unclassifiable writings, photos, and drawings – that stretch genre definitions, break the rules, challenge readers, and bend their brains, all while maintaining the highest levels of style and substance.

We think that literature has to evolve, that it should keep up with the world around it even if it doesn’t reflect it so much as use it. Taunt it. Remold it, when required.

We’re looking for stories that strike us as different, always with that idiosyncratic touch. Iconoclastic. Kind of bent. Humorous. Poems that find the metaphors we’ve been looking for but never quite landed on. Essays that take us away from the usual and into the world of the unseen and overlooked.

Above all, The Disappointed Housewife is a literary journal. We aren’t looking for genre material, though if your submission manipulates a genre in a literary way, we might just bite.

A little more specifically: we aren’t interested in romance, science fiction, thrillers, horror, fantasy, or erotica in their typical forms. We’ll cut you some slack, though. Just be sure that your work adheres to the general mission of The Disappointed Housewife.

Which is, to put it more plainly, to provide readers with great writing they can’t get anyplace else.

Submit your previously unpublished work by email to:

thedisappointedhousewife@gmail.com 

and paste the entire submission in the body of the email. We do not open unsolicited attachments. For poetry, do your best to recreate line breaks and other layout elements in the email, with the understanding that it will appear on the site, if it’s accepted, exactly the way you want it. For all submissions, provide a brief bio written in the third person; feel free to include links to your work available online.

By submitting to The Disappointed Housewife, you grant us first electronic rights, nonexclusive anthology rights, and archival rights should the work be accepted. All rights revert back to you after publication. If you elect to publish the piece elsewhere, you agree to cite The Disappointed Housewife as the original publisher.

We do consider simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere while under consideration here. Submit to only one category at a time.

Understand that if your work is accepted, you will likely not be able to publish it elsewhere (i.e., at another, perhaps more famous, magazine). Most outlets don’t consider previously published material, and your piece’s appearance here will be considered a publication.

If your work is rejected, please wait thirty days before your next submission. If your work is accepted and published, we ask that you wait one year before submitting new material.

Flash fiction and creative nonfiction should be 1000 words or less. Submit only one piece at a time. Submit up to three poems. For items that are harder to categorize (lists, faux official documents, parodic advertising, humorous-text tattoos …), we’ll know the right length when we see it, but understand that exceptions to the word limit are going to be rare.

A word on form

There’s so much that can be done in terms of the way readers “read” literature now. Words on a page, sure. But you could construct a short story entirely in tweets or phone texts. Or handwrite poetry on 3 x 5 index cards and photograph them (please write legibly). A photo slide show with enigmatic captions. A facsimile of someone’s job application. The menu of a hip restaurant that’s on the forefront of insect haute cuisine. A story made up of urls that readers click on to go on a virtual journey.

There’s a story in almost anything that’s written, even if it was told unintentionally.

In other words, writers who can think of unorthodox and offbeat ways to tell their stories will be highly appreciated here at The Disappointed Housewife.

We hope to be challenged, and if your idea isn’t easily translated to basic website conventions, we’ll work with you to figure out a way to get it out there.

Think multimedia. Think imagistic. Sound clips. Facsimile. DIY. Objects as literature. “The medium is the message.”

A (discouraging) word on payment: None.

One day we might be able to pay writers for their contributions, but for now it’s a labor of love on all fronts.

Call for Pitches of Personal Essays Related to Holidays: Noah Michelson at HuffPost

I'm taking pitches for personal essays related to the holidays for
@HuffPost

Personal Especially looking for folks from diverse backgrounds / with diverse experiences 

If we accept a piece, we pay! Submit to:

pitch@huffpost.com

Especially interested in stories about: grieving at the holidays / parenting at the holidays / relationships and sex at the holidays / seeing (or refusing to see) family that voted differently than you at the holidays / creating new holiday traditions but really open to anything

1. I need to see a draft before I know if it's a fit

2. Only taking personal essays, not op-eds or service pieces

3. 1000-2000 words is our sweet spot but if more words are warranted, I'm not opposed

4. There should be some kind of perspective / takeaway for the reader at the end 

--Noah Michelson

Call for Submissions: Cypress Review

Lyrical, contemplative, and contemporary works compel us. While poetry is our focus, we enjoy anything strange, surreal, and/or experimental (magical realism, speculative fiction, flash fiction, etc.). But we’re open to anything with heart.

Submissions for Issue II are currently open and will close on December 9. And before you submit, please check out Issue I!

For Issue II, we’re accepting up to up to 5 pieces of fiction, poetry, photography, and art. Please note we'll always accept poetry but will cycle through other genres in each issue.

There's a max of 5 pages total per submission, not per piece. Send us unpublished work and only submit in one category per submission period.

Writers, send a .doc/.docx/.pdf Word attachment. Photographers and artists, ensure your file type is readable on PC. A brief cover letter is optional, but please include a brief bio (50 words or less) with your full name that we can include if your work is published.

We’ll get back to you in 3-4 months. Please feel free to query us after 4 months if you haven’t heard back. In some cases, you might hear back from us sooner. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but let us know asap if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Please review the home page of our site before sending an inquiry. Email us at:

editor@cypressreview.com

if you have remaining questions or need assistance with Duotrope after reading these guidelines.

Submission link here.

Call for Submissions: IHRAM Publishes

IHRAM Publishes has moved to a quarterly, themed literary edition!

AND: we are now accepting visual artwork for inclusion in the journal!

We will be focusing on the following concerns:

First Quarter: Resilience Amidst Displacement — PUBLISHED

Second Quarter: Reflections of Feminine Empowerment — PUBLISHED

Third Quarter: Childhood Reflections and Youth Empowerment. — PUBLISHED

Fourth Quarter: Indigenous Voices: Heart, Hope and Land: SUBMIT YOUR WORK TODAY!

Desirous of hearing the voices of original thinkers and land stewards, our fourth quarterof the IHRAM literary magazine is dedicated to indigenous culture and experience in light of Indigenous history in Canada, highlighting Indigenous authors and artists.

Themes: Land stewardship, spirituality, mythology and dreams, aspirations, value of the native voice, challenges faced in this modern world, indigenous experiences which shaped the writer's adulthood, indigenous culture, etc.

Of course, we will continue to look, to listen and to learn about issues of concern for creators from Algeria to Zimbabwe, and everywhere in between! Up to 50% of each issue will be reserved for pieces that expand our understanding of human rights and social justice concerns not covered by the quarterly theme.

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit your poem, short story, essay (2500 words or less), or artwork to:

submit@humanrightsartmovement.org 

along with the following information:

• Your full name and/or pen name.
• Your country of residence.
• A photograph of you (high-resolution with no filters) should you wish to provide one.*
• A brief third-person bio (2-5 sentences). If your bio includes references of your past work, feel free to provide links!
• A brief foreword to your piece, explaining your inspiration for creating it, background information, explanation of key characters, and any other key insight for the reader.

*If your piece is accepted, we will request a high-resolution author photograph. However, auhors are not required to provide photographs of themselves and are always welcome to decline, should they wish to remain anonymous.

IHRAM Publishes pays $50 per accepted written piece.

IHRAM Publishes pays $25 per accepted artist. 

SUBMISSIONS ARE LIMITED TO ONE WRITTEN PIECE PER WRITER.

SUBMISSIONS OF ARTWORK ARE UNLIMITED.

We publish an ever-expanding collection of original works from lesser known and up-and-coming writers who seek to bring attention to urgent social justice issues around the world. We base our work on the values of beauty, sincerity, vulnerability, engagement and celebration of diversity.

IHRAM Publishes has presented work from 73 countries and 30 U.S. States.

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Call for Submissions: Dulcet Literary Magazine

Dulcet Literary Magazine is excited to announce its next call for submissions, November 1 – 30th. We will be curating works of fiction, poetry and visual art for our second issue, set to be released in February 2025.

2025 Issues
FEBRUARY: Dusk & Dawn (submission window open November 1 - 30, 2024)

*Our themes are meant to be a source of inspiration not a barrier for submitting quality work, so feel free to explore your own creative take on these. If a piece wanders off the path, but is in tune with what we’re looking for overall (see below), we will follow.

Guidelines:

• Submit up to 5,000 words in prose.

• Submit up to 5 poems.

• Submit up to 10 pieces of art.

• Include brief bio (1-3 sentences) written in third person.

• Attach one word document with one short story or up to five poems in one document.

• 12 pt. font and double spaced formatting is appreciated for prose.

• If submitting artwork, please include one PDF of all artwork you wish to submit or upload each piece (up to 10) individually.

• All artwork submitted must be high-res quality suitable for print (300 dpi).

• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know promptly if work is no longer available.

• Previously published work will not be accepted.

We do not charge a reading fee

We are unable to offer monetary compensation for our contributors at this time, but each contributor’s work and bio will be promoted on our website and socials. Each contributor will also be considered for our Creatives Interview Series.

Selected works may be requested for future anthologies.

We do nominate for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Please allow up to 8 weeks for a response.

We do not accept work created by AI. Any submissions not created by a human author will be automatically rejected. 

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: Third Street Review

Third Street Review
Literally On the Edge

Located on the Pacific Ocean in the artists’ colony of Laguna Beach, California, Third Street Review lives on the edge, both literally and figuratively. California has always been synonymous with exploration and innovation and, in creative expression, with boundary expansion and the dynamic re-invention of artistic forms. Third Street Review is no different. Share your best writing and visual art. We welcome traditional formats as well as pieces that push boundaries, embrace experimentation, and reflect artistic excellence.

For fiction and nonfiction/creative nonfiction, we are looking for work under 1000 words. If you wish to submit micros, please do so in one document, with each piece of writing on a separate page, and make sure the total word count does not exceed 1000 words.

For poetry, you may send up to 3 poems in one document; make sure each one is on a separate page.

For art and photography, please send 1 image in one document. Please upload the highest resolution that you have available.

FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: Please make sure that neither your name nor any other identification is on the document you submit or in the title of your submission. All work must be original and previously unpublished. This includes personal blogs or other social media platforms. Simultaneous submissions are fine – just let us know if your work gets accepted elsewhere.

If the category you are looking for is not on the list, it means we have met our submission cap.

We pay $25 (via PayPal) if your work is accepted.

Online Rights: If we publish your work, we require exclusive electronic rights to it for 3 months and non-exclusive rights indefinitely so we can include it in our online archives.

Print Rights: We require non-exclusive print rights for potential annual anthologies and promotional materials.

All other rights remain yours.

Deadline: Dec. 1, 2024

Submission Fee: $3.00 

Submit your work here.

Writing Grant: The Gulliver Travel Grant for Speculative Writing

The Gulliver Travel Grant for Speculative Writing

OPEN NOVEMBER 1, 2024 – NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Award: $1,000 USD.

Winner announced January 15, 2025.

Grant Application Process

The application form for the Gulliver Travel Grant is only active during the open submission period: 12:00AM November 1, 2024 – 11:59PM November 30, 2024 (All times UTC -4). Required materials include:

• A cover letter: Include a one-page written description of the project, including details on the travel location and an estimated completion date (no more than 500 words), and a bibliography of previously published work, if applicable. Applicants need not have prior publishing credits to apply.
• A writing sample: Up to 10 pages of poetry, 10 pages of drama, or 5,000 words of fiction or creative nonfiction. If you are sending a segment of a novel, novella, or novelette, please include a one-page synopsis as the first page of the document. The submitted work must be speculative.

Jurors will deliberate with the goal of announcing winners by January 15th, 2025

More information and application form here.

Note: The site also offers an alternative application method for those with accessibility needs.

Call for Submissions: The Ex-Puritan

The Ex-Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world.

Review our submission guidelines here to send us your work!

If you’re interested in supporting the magazine, check out our Patreon and learn about the perks you can get as a supporter, including feedback on your work and free entry to the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.

Payment:

$100 per interview
$200 per essay
$100 per review
$150 per work of fiction
$50 per poem, or $100 per poet if multiple poems are accepted
$50+ per experimental or hybrid work, at an increasing scale depending on the nature of the piece 

Check back with the magazine regularly; The Ex-Puritan is working ever assiduously to increase these figures.

Please note that we can ONLY issue payments using e-transfer, PayPal or a cheque in the mail. We also pay in CAD. If you cannot accept payment via e-transfer, PayPal or cheque from a Canadian bank, we cannot accept your submission.

The Ex-Puritan accepts submissions via Submittable: check out our general submission guidelines here!

Regular submissions to the magazine are free of charge and should fall under one of six categories: fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reviews, and experimental/hybrid work. To submit to the experimental/hybrid section of the magazine, please email our section editors at:

hybrid.experimental@ex-puritan.ca

Unless we are soliciting your work, all submissions must be previously unpublished (this includes self-publishing, publishing on blogs, and in chapbook format).

Please note that in order to diversify the voices we publish, we have a limit on how frequently we will publish the same writer: you may publish with us once per year in up to two sections of the magazine.

All submissions received by March 25 will be considered for the spring issue, published in May. Those received by June 25 are considered for the summer issue in August. Those received by September 25 are considered for the fall issue, published in November. Those received by December 25 are considered for the winter issue, out in February. All submissions will receive a decision within four months of the submission date.

If you haven’t heard back from us in four months or for any other query not answered here, get in touch with us at:

editors@ex-puritan.ca 

Please note that we CANNOT accept email submissions. They will be discarded. We are open to simultaneous submissions for all regular submission categories, but no simultaneous submissions are permitted for the Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please contact us immediately at:

editors@ex-puritan.ca 

to withdraw the piece.

Writing Competition for Queer Writers: Quill Prose Awad

Queer literature is often found in the side stacks, in the back of the bookstore, under “Gay and Lesbian.” These authors are put into a genre that barely fits them, excluded from mainstream funding, and alienated by submission questionnaires and prying questions about identity and the underlying, “What are you?” The contradiction is that though labels can be alienating, they can also be empowering and community building. Red Hen Press seeks to work against the negative politics of labeling while honoring and empowering authors who identify as queer.

Award details

$1000
Book publication by Red Hen Press
Final Judge: Raymond Luczak
Deadline: November 30, 2024

Note: Entry Fee is $10. Name on cover sheet only; 25,000-word minimum (approximately 150 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt font); prose (fiction or nonfiction) by a queer writer only.

Submissions are currently open for this award.

Guidelines

• The award is open to all writers with the following exceptions: Authors who have had a full-length work published by Red Hen Press, or a full-length work currently under consideration by Red Hen Press

• Employees, interns, or contractors of Red Hen Press

• Relatives of employees or members of the executive board of directors

• Relatives or individuals having a personal or professional relationship with any of the final judges where they have taken any part whatsoever in shaping the manuscript, or where, for whatever reason, selecting a particular manuscript might have the appearance of impropriety

Procedures and Ethical Considerations

To be certain that every manuscript finalist receives the fairest evaluation, all manuscripts shall be submitted to the judges without any identifying material.

For questions or to withdraw a submitted entry, please contact Tobi Harper. 

Red Hen Press is committed to maintaining the utmost integrity of our awards. Judges shall recuse themselves from considering any manuscript where they recognize the work. In the event of refusal, a manuscript score previously assigned by the managing editor of the press will be substituted.

Submit your entry here.

Call for Short Fiction: The Fiction Desk

How to submit short stories to The Fiction Desk

All short story submissions should be made through our online submission form. This helps us keep track of the submissions we receive as efficiently as possible. Please don't post us anything, as it won't reach the right people.

What we're looking for

We run a series of short story submission calls through the year. These always include a call for general short fiction, and usually a call for stories on a given theme as well. We also run an annual ghost story call every winter. To find out what's happening at the moment, please see the sidebar to the left. (Or below, if you're reading on a phone.)

We strongly recommend reading one of our anthologies before submitting: every short story publisher has different tastes, and if you take the time to read us, you'll find it much easier to decide what to submit. Our latest anthology, New Ghost Stories IV, is a great place to start. Find out more, or get your own copy, here. (That volume concentrates on supernatural fiction. If you prefer more of a mix, take a look at our previous anthology, Housers Borders Ghosts.)

One other thing to note is that we're looking for stories about people and places, rather than about writing itself. If the most important thing about your story is its quirky narrative structure, or if the protagonist is a writer who's writing a short story about the challenges of writing a short story about the challenges of being a writer, then it may not be for us.

Please note that we do not consider novel excerpts, non-fiction, poetry, or anything with illustrations or photographs. We also do not accept any writing generated using AI tools.
Word count

We are able to consider stories that are between 1,000 and 10,000 words in length; please do not send anything longer or shorter than this. Most of the stories we publish are between about 2,000 and 7,000 words.

How much we pay

We pay £25 per thousand words for stories we publish (eg £100 for a 4,000 word story, or £150 for a 6,000 word story). Contributors also receive two complimentary paperback copies. The stories we publish are also eligible to enter the Writer's Award, a cash prize of £100 for the best story in each volume, as judged by the contributors.

Deadlines and when to submit

Our winter call for short story submissions is now open. The deadline is Friday 31st January, 2025.

To receive updates when we launch new calls for submissions, please sign up for our email newsletter.
International submissions and translations

We're based in the UK, and accept short story submissions from authors all over the world. (All stories must be in English: if submitting a translation, please make a note in the synopsis field of who is making the submission, and who owns the rights to both the story and the translation.)
Rights

We ask for first serial rights on any story we publish. This means that the story should not have appeared anywhere else, either in print or online (which includes publication on an author's own website). When we publish a story, we ask for a brief period of exclusivity (usually six months), and the right to keep the story in print as part of the anthology. We don't ask for more rights than we need to produce our anthologies, or place any limits on what you can do with your story after the exclusivity period. Copyright always remains with the author.

File formats

If possible, please submit your short story in .docx, .doc, or .odt format. (At a pinch, we can also use .rtf files. However, please avoid Microsoft Works or Apple Pages documents as we aren't always able to open these. Read more about file formats here.)

Submission fee

We charge a £5 submission fee for each story submitted to us. This helps with our running costs (we do not receive any external funding), and allows us to devote more time and attention to the submissions we receive. It also enables us to work a little faster: we aim to respond to all submissions within four weeks. Payment can be made at the time of submission, via credit card or PayPal.
Multiple and simultaneous submissions

It's fine to send us more than one story. In fact, we prefer to see two or three. Please don't send more than three, though, and please send each story through the form separately, and not together in one document. (Please note that each story is considered as a separate submission.)

You may wish to submit to other short story publishers and magazines at the same time as submitting to us, and we are happy to accept simultaneous submissions. However, please let us know if a story you've submitted to us has been accepted elsewhere!

Our response times

We aim to reply to all submissions within four weeks, although we will sometimes go slightly over this during busy periods or holidays.

Submissions to our themed calls are handled in the same way, and will usually receive a response within four weeks: our submission calls are not contests, so stories are considered only on their suitability for publication in our anthology series, rather than in competition with each other, and we respond to every submission as soon as we've made a decision on it.

If you're waiting to hear from us, please keep an eye on your junk mail folder, as our replies occasionally end up there. If you haven't heard back from us after two months, you may have missed an email. Please check your junk mail folder again. If there's nothing there, email us:

submissions@thefictiondesk.com 

It would be very helpful if you could include your submission code, which you can find in your submission fee receipt email.

Call for Submissions about Food and Place on the Theme of "Devour": Al Dente

Al Dente seeks contributions from emerging and established writers for its inaugural, Winter 2024 issue. The theme is Devour. Submissions are open through November 22.

All work submitted to Al Dente should be accompanied by a specific, geographic location related to the piece itself (“Everglades National Park,” “northwest Tulsa, Oklahoma,” the address of a public venue). These locations — emphasizing the relationship between food and place — will be used to create a navigable map of writing and art. For a description of the kinds of work we are seeking, please see the links below. Writers may submit in more than one category.

Simultaneous submissions of are accepted. Please let us know via Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere.

At this time, we cannot pay contributors for their work.

All submissions must be previously unpublished. We ask for first North American serial rights of all work published with Al Dente, and aim to keep contributors’ work available for the lifetime of our journal. Please credit Al Dente should work be republished elsewhere at a later date.

Poetry

As Duke Orsino extols to begin Twelfth Night: “If music be the food of love, play on.” Give us a ballad of bread, a sonnet of soups, or haiku for Honey Nut Cheerios. Capture for us the symbolism of over-indulging, the starving agony of peeling apples with a fork, and the loving lyrics sung by your high school lunch lady. Send up to four poems in separate word documents (.doc or .docx). Submit Poetry here.

Visual Art

Lovers of food and dabblers in visual arts! We invite you to submit original illustrations, graphics, and photographs that connect to food and place. Along with your submission, we ask that you identify the material used to create your work and the date of creation. Please submit your work in PNG or JPEG format, up to 10 MB. If visual art has been edited, we ask that you include the raw, unedited image in your submission. We cannot wait to see your creative submissions that highlight your (and our) passion for food! Submit Visual Art here.

(Un)common Recipes

Give us a recipe from the last Thanksgiving with your creepy uncle, that awkward first date at Applebee’s, or the time you lost the Carrolton County hot dog eating contest. Share with us the bitter fuel of your enemies, the taste of your lovers, and the situationship recipes in-between! What was your most recent meal or the food you’d kill to eat again? High tea with the royals or crumbs with society’s delinquents? The house recipe for Zen soup or your church’s sherbet punch? Whatever it is, make sure to include a recipe — nonfictional or fantastical — and short narrative (500 words or less). We want to eat your words! Submit (Un)common Recipes here.

What I Eat in a Day…

You know those questions you get from your mom she calls and asks, “Are you having enough? What are you eating?” We want to hear answers to mom’s question. What do you imagine Elle Woods, George Washington, or Neil deGrasse Tyson would eat over the course of a day? What do the daily diets of college students and professors have in common? Now is your time to dive into your influencer roots and tell us what those meals look like. Dessert for breakfast (and lunch and dinner)? Fried Friday? Game day eats? We want it all! Short (500 word) submissions welcomed, the serious and satirical. Submit “Eat-in-a-day” Logs here.

Food Narratives

We welcome additional, nonfiction prose (up to 1,500 words) exploring the relationships between food and place. Submit Food Narratives here.

Writing Competition for Poets over the Age of 50: The Stern Prize

In honor of the poet Gerald Stern, The American Poetry Review is happy to announce a new book award – The Stern Prize.

The prize of $2,000 will be awarded in 2025, with publication by The American Poetry Review in partnership with Copper Canyon Press in the same year. The author will receive a standard book contract, with royalties paid in subsequent years.

The prize is open to all poets age 50 and over, regardless of previous publication history.

A committee of editors and board members of The American Poetry Review will judge. APR complies with the CLMP Code of Ethics in the administration of this contest.

To be considered for the prize, submit a manuscript of 48 pages or more, single-spaced, paginated, with a table of contents and acknowledgments, with a $25 entry fee.

• Manuscripts must be received by January 1, 2025. The winning author and all other entrants will be notified by February 28, 2025. The winning book will be published in December 2025.

• You may simultaneously submit your manuscript elsewhere, but please notify us immediately if it is accepted for publication. Submission of more than one manuscript is permissible; each must be entered separately.

• The winning author will have time to revise the manuscript after acceptance, but please send no revisions during the reading period. 

Entry link and guidelines here.